February: Clear Skies & Moderating Temps To End The Month

[srainhoutx]

Update from Jeff:

Lots of reports of sleet and snow incoming this morning across areas north of I-10.

I just drove through heavy sleet at US 290 and 610 enough to cover the ground so radar returns are in fact reaching the ground. Reports from Conroe and Monaville indicate snow is falling and starting to accumulate. Sub-cloud layer is saturating enough to from the top down to result in precipitation to reach the ground. Surface temperatures are at or below freezing from Katy to Cypress to Conroe and this is where precipitation is starting to accumulate on grassy surfaces and elevated structures. While sleet/snow is heavy enough to accumulate in Harris County, surface temperature is just above freezing and once the precipitation stops it will melt.

North of the freezing line, melting precipitation (snow/sleet) on contact with a slightly warmer road surface will result in some possible glazing of bridges and overpasses with a thin layer of ice.  

Winter Weather Advisory just issued for Harris County until 1000am

 

 

 

[JamieP]

I saw a few flakes leaving home in Alvin! What a surprise! Nothing hitting the ground, but still pretty to watch in the dark sky.

[TexasMetBlake]

Here is a pic from The Woodlands area of my roof. You can see it starting to turn white now. Now if we can just get it to snow in the bucket at IAH...lol

[cisa]

Surprise! A very nice surprise for me. I guess I'll try to get on the road early. Sounds like my trip from Porter to Conroe will be pretty ( pretty interesting )

[sau27]

Had some fairly heavy sleet about 20 minutes ago in green way plaza.

[jasons2k]

I have to chuckle on the sudden Winter Weather Advisory.

Like the old saying goes 'there's no time like the present' hehe.

[Andrew]

College Station: (sorry for weird view. On my phone)

[nuby3]

I already have more sleet accumulation than either of the last two storms.

[srainhoutx]

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
647 AM CST THU FEB 6 2014

TXZ214-226-227-235>238-061600-
CHAMBERS-WHARTON-FORT BEND-JACKSON-MATAGORDA-BRAZORIA-GALVESTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WINNIE...MONT BELVIEU...ANAHUAC...
EL CAMPO...WHARTON...PIERCE...SUGAR LAND...MISSOURI CITY...
RICHMOND...ROSENBERG...EDNA...BAY CITY...PALACIOS...PEARLAND...
LAKE JACKSON...ALVIN...ANGLETON...FREEPORT...LEAGUE CITY...
TEXAS CITY...FRIENDSWOOD...GALVESTON
647 AM CST THU FEB 6 2014

...WINTRY WEATHER MIX THIS MORNING GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE
HIGHWAY 59 CORRIDOR FROM EL CAMPO TO THE SOUTH HOUSTON AREA TO HARDIN...

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BRING A MIX OF MAINLY LIGHT SLEET
AND LIGHT SNOW TO THE AREA GENERALLY ALONG AND TO THE NORTH OF THE
HIGHWAY 59 CORRIDOR...FROM EL CAMPO TO THE SOUTH HOUSTON AREA TO
HARDIN. ANY ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BE VERY LIGHT. FURTHER TO THE SOUTH
AND TOWARD THE COAST...MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN IS POSSIBLE.

DRIVERS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING THIS
MORNING ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

[TexasMetBlake]

My pic got buried on last page (last post) so here it is again from The Woodlands area. Snow starting to collect on the roof now.

[wxman57]

Just drove into work from SW Houston along the south loop then down I-45. Could see an occasional white streak in my headlights. Looks like small snow grains, which are partially-melted snowflakes. They appear to be falling from the mid-level cloud deck, passing through the warm nose and partially melting, then reaching a freezing layer just above the ground and re-freezing before finally reaching the ground as little balls of ice with a lower density than sleet. Not quite graupel.

[srainhoutx]

txflagwaver reports sleet and snow covering the golf course in Deer Park.

[nuby3]

temp quickly dropped below 32 here at onset, DP of 23 still, will the temp go any lower with continued precip?

not asking you guys a question BTW, more, this is what I am waiting to see from the weather

[Kingwood31]

Sleet and snow covering roof tops in kingwood

[MontgomeryCoWx]

College Station reports icy surface streets

[nuby3]

I am down a degree over the last hour, 31 and my dewpoint didn't budge. 23

[redneckweather]

Just had a serious burst of snow that lasted about 7 minutes that got the roof white and dusted everything good. Man, gotta love these little surprises like this. Precip is quickly coming to an end but glad to see what we did. Still got flurries falling outside. Dang that wind is COLD!!!!

[Katdaddy]

Experienced a decent path of sleet/ice pellets in League City at I-45 and 96 around 6:40AM this morning.

[srainhoutx]

I would keep an eye on a potent system expected to trek across Texas next Tuesday and Wednesday. This upper air feature appears to have a lot of energy associated with it and as of today, the guidance is trending colder. There is also a lot more QPF associated with this storm system. so something to monitor over the weekend. Tonight may offer another surprise across Central and N Central Texas as the mean trough passes our Region. We will see.

[ticka1]

Wow where did all this come from? Did the models bust this too? Here at work see alot of sleet snow on tops of buildings here in downtown. I think the models need to be fixed